Chapter 67: Building Siege Equipment
Joels, of course, wouldn't let him go so easily, and his legs leaped and slashed down from the air. This powerful slash gathered Joels' powerful power, Lozman You know that you can't hide a force, he dodged sideways, but the speed was still half a beat slower than Joels, and his right arm holding the sword was injured again, and at this time, Rozman's crazy ideas could no longer be realized. His right hand had lost his iron sword.
Emilyada was also about to rush behind Lozman, Charles was pressing step by step, and now he had not yet reached the point of exhaustion, although Lozman was not physically and mentally exhausted, but he was already injured, which meant that he had lost half of the loss.
Several mercenaries next to him followed Rozman to the death, they were all loyal guards of Rozman, since they were loyal guards, they would definitely not abandon Rozman and leave.
Joels slashed through one of the mercenaries with a single sword, then stabbed the body of the other mercenary again, and the remaining mercenaries retreated one after another, and the Nord soldiers next to them beckoned to them again, resisting the loyal guards. At this time, Rozman was like a lamb surrounded by wolves, and no one could save him. Joels longsword fish through, has given up the last resistance, his left hand has been shaken and hurts, there is no strength to raise the shield to resist Joels in the last episode, the long sword pierced his armor, Joels's strength is extremely great, Lozman even though Joels's long sword pierced the body he still stood there, blood spurting out of his mouth, Joels exerted force again, all the way to Lordzman back, pushing his body until it hit one of his subordinates. His subordinates didn't want to look back, and they just happened to see the death of their commander.
At this point, this group of mercenaries can be regarded as a complete failure.
Lozman had already been killed by Charles, and Emilyda rushed out at this time and saw the beheaded Nozman.
"Looks like I'm late!"
Emilyada shook her hand, and the sword in her hand turned to the mercenaries who had lost their command.
The battle only lasted for a short time, and the remaining mercenaries were either killed or surrendered, and Walls incorporated these mercenaries into his team one by one, and now it was a time for a shortage of troops, and no one could be spared.
These mercenaries were quick to come to their senses, and in order to survive, they had to obey Walls's orders.
After the battle, Joels was appreciated by Walls.
"Not bad! Joels, you did a good job tonight. ”
"Nope! It's nothing! ”
Joels wiped his sword, which was now stained with the blood of his enemies, and Lozman's blood was of particular importance to him.
"This is a tough opponent!"
"This is not a difficult opponent to be dealt with, and the Lord of Caysto is not a difficult opponent, the war has just begun!"
Walls looked down to where Aaron was, and when he conquered the kingdom of Rhodoc this time, Aaron's stain would never be allowed to exist anymore. He felt that he needed to garrison a heavy army to maintain order in Aaron.
After a night's rest with Walls, Emily and Joels, they set out to make their way to Aaron.
At this time in Aaron, Lord Kesto was ready to fight, he piled up his walls with all kinds of defensive equipment, Rhodok crossbowmen were arranged on the city walls at this time, as long as the enemy approached, the crossbow arrows in their hands would take the enemy's life, and at the same time he closed the city gate, and directly sealed the city gate, and no one had to enter the city gate, so the residents of the city were a little panicked, and there was no external supply, They don't know how many days they have enough food to live on.
The nobles also had some opinions at this time, they had used their few fortunes to gather a group of mercenaries, and elected Lord Kesto as their leader, and now their basic security may be threatened, without the input of external supplies, Aaron's city may not last for a few days.
Although Lord Kesto was ready for all sorts of defenses in Aaron's city, there was no fortress that could not be breached. The next day, the day after Lord Kesto returned to the city, Wall had defeated Lozman's mercenaries the previous evening, and he led his army to set up camp outside Aaron's city, and set up siege equipment with local materials.
Looking at the busy soldiers, Walls sighed again that fighting with the mercenaries of Lotzman would have a certain loss for Walls, because Walls was no longer the lord of the Nord Kingdom, and if he wanted to go directly to the territory of the Nord Kingdom to recruit soldiers, he would definitely be hindered, and those recruits who had just been conscripted into the army would not be devastated by the war and it would be difficult to become elite troops.
And if you want to recruit troops in the Rhodok area, it is impossible for the time being, because Wall once attacked the Rhodok Kingdom as an invader, and the residents of the Rhodok Kingdom have a certain fear of Wall, and they can't really want to work for Wall, so after the capture of Aaron, the first thing Wall has to do is to appease the hearts of the people in the Rhodok area.
In a short period of time, it is impossible for Walls to get enough troops, so every soldier killed means that one less combat power is lost, and Walls has to reduce casualties as much as possible to capture Aaron. In the distance, a group of Nord soldiers were making siege equipment, and with Arteman as an engineer to direct the manufacturing, it was believed that a siege tower would soon be erected.
On Walls' side, they are Joels and Emilyda, with Joels on Wall's left and Emilyda on Walls' right.
"Tell me about it! Is there any good way to take Aaron without a single soldier? ”
Joels, a powerful knight who was not proficient in using stratagem to take cities, shook his head and did not speak.
On the other side, Emilyada was also a brave knight, and at this time he tied up his hair, and his long hair was very flowing on the battlefield. is also worthy of his title. However, neither in the kingdom of Svadia nor in the army of Vorth, no one dared to look down on Emilyda.
His force speaks for itself.
"Your Majesty! I'm reminded of many examples of storming cities, and the best way to do that is to start a civil war directly from them, so that two groups of people within the city fight. As far as I know, there are two groups of people in Aaron's city, one is Aaron's nobles, mainly the group of nobles who support Lord Kesto, although our army has been robbing Aaron's wealth of considerable value from the nobles, causing their wealth to be depleted.
Therefore, they have the deepest resentment against us, but under your wise leadership, we did not rob Aaron of the wealth of the commoners, which means that the commoners have a certain affection for us, and they did not want to support Lord Kestor, but it was because of the coercion of Aaron's nobles that they supported Lord Kestor. If the conflict between these two groups can be deepened and they have a civil war, I think the final victor must be the civilians in Aaron. Because they are not only numerous, but also the main source of the army, originally Rozman belonged to the mercenary, he would definitely be loyal to the person who paid him, but now the people who stay in Aaron City are all a group of civilians to establish an army, if the interests of the civilians are damaged, this group of civilians who have lived in Aaron since childhood The army will definitely mutiny. Then we can destroy this city. ”
Emilyada has a handsome appearance, and it's no wonder that Christina has a crush on her. I don't know how Christina is doing now.
Speaking of which, Christina is also a brave and warlike female knight.
Maybe in the next fight, you can consider bringing Christina over. But this is also a thought for Wall, after all, it seems that Emilyda will not agree.
"Excellent! You said it very well. ”
Walls strongly agreed with Emilyida's proposal, he had experienced many battles, and he also wanted to disintegrate Aaron's power through the inside, after all, Lord Caesto was a king who had just ascended to power, and he had not yet established a holy and great image in the minds of the people, Walls had the image of the god of war in the minds of that group of Nord soldiers, so they were willing to follow Walls, and the people in the Rhodoc region were extremely afraid of Walls, Therefore, they did not dare to rebel for a while.
Only the group of nobles in the Aaron region who are extremely resentful of Wall, but this is also good, giving Wall a reason to completely eradicate the nobles in Aaron's city.
The three of them were watching the busy figures of their soldiers. In the distance, a man ran towards the three of them.
"Boss! I found a piece of good news. ”
Porcha still couldn't get rid of his old habit of calling Wall, until she ran up to Walls and saw Joels and Emilyda with strange looks on their faces, and he didn't realize it at this point.
But he couldn't suppress the expression on his face, and the excitement and excitement on his face were as if a child had discovered something new and interesting.
"Your Majesty! There are not many supplies in Aaron's city, and those nobles have hired a group of mercenaries with all their belongings, and now they don't have much food, as long as we hold on, we can starve everyone in the city to death. ”
Porcha said excitedly, and he observed the happy expression on Walls' face, and immediately laughed stupidly.
"You're doing a great job! Now I'm going to plan the battle plan thoroughly, you just said that you want to starve all the people in the city to death! I think this one method can be okay, but it is too cruel, and I think it is better to deal with them in a different way, which can save us time and earn a good reputation for mercy for me. Of course, you'll be named, too! ”
Porcha's words made Porcha a little excited, and after hearing what Walls was just about, he continued to investigate intelligence, and as an expert in tracking down intelligence in Walls' army, he naturally took on the important position of intelligence chief.
Go back! Walls said excitedly to the two people behind him.
"Guys! There's a good way to break down a proposed city, and we don't have to spend a single soldier. ”
Everyone was surprised, a little uncomfortable with Walls's sudden idea.
"As for what kind of method! I won't announce it to you for the time being. ”
Walls decided that his plan had to be carried out in the shadows.
Soon, Wall's camp was built.
It was only at this moment that Lord Kesto left from the top of the city walls, because when the construction of the Wall camp was completed, it was also the time when the sun set.
And at this time, in the camp of Walls, under the cover of moonlight, a figure walked out of Walls's camp.
He hid in Tibet, making good use of the terrain and environment to cover his whereabouts, and soon he approached the city of Aaron.
When he touched the walls of Aaron's city, he threw a rope from his hand, and at the other end of the rope was a hook shaped like a claw, which made it easy for him to grasp the wall.
When the iron claw was firmly fixed on the wall, he could finally climb the wall with impunity, and the guards on the wall seemed to be sleepy, or they thought that Wall's army had come from afar and would not attack at this moment, so they let their guard down. That's why this guy sneaked into Aaron's city.
This man was none other than a man under Walls, who was officially called Kress.
She was still a little girl, but she had courage and skill that ordinary people could not match, and he was sent to Aaron's city as a spy. Walls's plan was extremely simple, mobilizing Aaron's two classes to fight, one as the upper class of nobles and the other as the lower class of commoners. The nobles must have had a great deal of resentment against Walls because their wealth was stolen from Wall, and their wealth was also used to hire the mercenaries, so they must not have much material to maintain their decent life in the city at this critical juncture. At this time, those nobles with evil intentions will rob the commoners of their property.
In this way, the contradiction between the two can be provoked, and once the contradiction is provoked, Walls can watch the fire from the other side, and then Aaron will be self-defeating.
The nobles that Kress is going to this time will incite conflicts between nobles and commoners.
Tonight was a quiet night, both for Walls' men and for Lord Kesto's sharing, with no conflict breaking out between the two sides. But a great conspiracy is brewing inside the city of Aaron. On the second day, Lord Kesto wanted to inspect Aaron's walls, as he had done yesterday, but to her surprise, there was an accident on the way to the walls, which was the main road of Aaron's city.
A group of men dressed as nobles commanding their men are snatching the seemingly weaker side. Needless to say, the group of people on the weaker side knew that they were the lowest level of the common people in Aaron's city.
This does not bode well! Lord Kesto, who has been wandering for many years, knows that in order to become king, he must have the support of people, and the support of the nobles is important, but the support of the commoners is also indispensable.
However, Lord Kesto can become the king of the kingdom of Rhodok, mainly relying on the nobles in Aaron to support her, so at this moment he has to give up the commoners for the time being, because the commoners do not support him, if you say that you lose the support of the nobles at this moment, the outside Wall can directly tear him to pieces.
"What's going on?"
Lord Kesto yelled at the group in front of him. His roar immediately made everyone present stop their movements, the group of commoners who looked like a family fell to the ground at this moment, the nobles commanded their subordinates to snatch the things in their hands, when Lord Casto appeared, this group of subordinates stopped moving, and the commoners looked their longing eyes at Lord Casto. They were praying that Lord Kesto would help them justly.
"Your Majesty!"
The nobleman said politely to Lord Kesto. Although it is said that Lord Kesto's throne as king has not come properly, he is a king anyway, and he should be respected in the city of Aaron.
"I really don't have food at home! I don't know why, the food I hid in the warehouse actually appeared in the house of that common people, I know that it was that hateful group of civilians who robbed me of my food, and now I just take my food. ”
Lord Kesto nodded, if it was said that the group of civilians had indeed robbed this nobleman's food, naturally the nobles were in charge, and Lord Kesto would be relieved about it. However, in the next second, the civilian's answer made Lord Kesto a little embarrassed.
"Your Majesty! I don't know why, I have a few extra bags of grain in my house, if the nobles are willing to take back my extra food, I have nothing to blame, but the nobles actually directly robbed all the grain storage departments in my house, which is really against common sense. ”
Lord Kesto looked at the nobleman with suspicion again.
The nobleman quickly stepped forward and explained.
"Is this group of civilians just allowed to do whatever they want? I have to punish them a little, they have stolen my grain, and I will naturally take back all their food department as punishment, if I have no punishment, will they not be able to steal my grain with impunity? ”
The nobleman seemed to be right, and Lord Kesto frowned, shook his hand, and motioned for his team to move on, no longer caring about this nobleman's affairs. The commoners looked at their great king almost with desperate eyes. The civilians watching seemed to have some sympathy for the robbed civilian.
"Damn untouchables! Hurry up and bring me something, you dare to steal my things! ”
"Nope! This is my family's food! If you take it, we'll starve to death!" ”
But this nobleman doesn't care so much, he only cares about his food, and now that Wall's army is surrounded by Aaron, if he can get some food, he will get more food, so that he will have more chances of survival.
The nobleman's subordinates ruthlessly snatched away the food of the commoner, and then the commoner could only live on the street and cry mercilessly on the ground. His family was in tears.
The seeds of resentment are sown from there.
Encountering this drama unexpectedly, Lord Kesto's heart suddenly felt a little turbulent, and he suddenly felt that a kind of uneasiness had begun to appear in the city. Lord Stowe looked at the army of Walls that dotted the city.
Under the castle of Marasburg, Lord Kesto has been defeated by Walls, and now Wall's army headquarters have appeared near Aaron, and there is no doubt that the mercenaries who were ambushed near Dumai have been eliminated by Walls.
At this point, Lord Kesto looked at the boundless mountain range, and the blue sky and white clouds above the mountain range, and he already felt a trace of sadness at this time.
Maybe he shouldn't have been here at all, and Lord Kesto came to Aaron with a bit of luck.
The blue sky in the sky seemed to be dripping, he was so blue, but in the eyes of Lord Kesto, no matter how bright and bright it was, the sky would always be so dark.
In any case, he himself is about to die, and if he does not fight at the last moment of his life, then he can only go to the grave with his claim.
"This is the last battle! I'll follow Walls and become famous. One more king among the opponents he has defeated! ”
Lord Kesto already knew that he was coming to an end, and he held on to the last day, this was his obsession, and since he had to face his opponent, he would never give up. Walls, who were outside the city, had not launched an attack for a long time, and Lord Keisto had already seen it, and Walls on the opposite side had been building siege engines from morning to night, as if he wanted to attack Aaron in a big way.
Lord Kesto estimated that by tomorrow Walls would be able to make a perfect set of siege engines. To make a set of siege equipment at such a fast pace, there must be a master in Walls' army, and Lord Kesto has a hard time gathering an army, and it is not complete for things like the construction of intelligence networks.
As a result, he had no idea what kind of engineers were in Wall's army to assist him in building siege engines.